It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

My standard comment is, If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.

I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.